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This is not a new thought by any stretch of the imagination. Those that get paid the most are, generally, those that provide way less value to everyday hard working people than the value provided by actual everyday hard working people. Feudal, maybe? Top heavy, by a long shot. Sports people, meh Actors, meh CEOs, meh Politicians, mostly meh Finance dealers, absolutely meh Corporate Lawyers, fucking meh to the max Top health practitioners are paid a lot and I can go with that. Here's a list Google spat out (US dollars) Law Firm Partner (Elite International / Corporate): $350,000 – $2,000,000+ CEO / Managing Director: $250,000 – $1,000,000+ base Investment Banker / Managing Director: $ 250,000 – $800,000+ ⚕️ Neurosurgeon: $450,000 – $750,000+ ⚕️ Cardiothoracic Surgeon: $400,000 – $680,000+ Quantitative Systematic Trader: $200,000 – $600,000+ Chief Financial Officer: $220,000 – $600,000+ ⚕️ Orthopedic Surgeon: $380,000 – $600,000+ ⚕️ Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon: $375,000 – $...

A man that exudes the genuine spark of life, I love Brian Blessed ! HAPPY 90TH!

The early story of Bob Newhart is quite spectacular: 1958 : Bored To relieve the  advertising copywriter boredom he and his mate make funny phone calls to each other They record them on acetate His mate moves cities He records just him doing the calls A radio DJ hears them and loves them 1959 : Signed Warner Bros. start up a record label but can't sign any big music stars to kick it off The DJ tells the head honcho to listen to the acetates, "A comedy record, I dunno" They all get convinced and Warner Bros. Records tell him to do a club show so they can record him. He's never done a live show, ever 1960 : Stardom He does his first ever gig, they record it The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart  becomes the top hitting record of 1960 Bob Newhart is a star and, in the US, it becomes the 20th best-selling album of all time 

Large Language Models (LLMs) that power the chatbot you find so fascinating is NOT what AI is all about anymore, that is so last year and simplistic. Agentic AI is where it's at. Watch this to move your thinking on from, AI "made a funny image and then it wrote my report for me" to see what AI (as I write) is really about. Ok, so now we know about agentic AI, and specifically how OpenAI, the company that gives you ChatGPT, allowed it's agentic AI's to roam the Internet, eek. Here's a few articles that give deeper insight, but let's start with this from Wikimedia from just a few days ago. OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects 5 October 2026 by Selena Deckelmann, Chief Product & Technology Officer, Wikimedia Foundation While OpenAI admits to agents behaving “unpredictably”, they must also acknowledge their responsibility to monitor and prevent these risks. AI companies are not doing enough to secure their systems and pr...

We find ourselves in all sorts of situations and sometimes we may feel like we're being coerced into something we don't feel comfortable with. You have choice, always, and you don't have to do anything you don't want to. Recognise that there may be a cost, perhaps a massive personal cost to not doing it. You still have a choice and you don't have to do anything you don't want to. Take a breath, step back, and think, "Do I really want to do this?" Maybe you're scared, it's a new thing and you're feeling more anxious about failure and when you do it you'll be chuffed with yourself that you gave it a go. If it's a big thing then perhaps taking the time to talk with those you trust and have useful insight would help, if so then put off the decision until you're clear. Sometimes it's peer pressure, or even social expectations, that you feel is manipulating / forcing you to do something you don't want. You always have a choic...

Those that want to own a house have a deep inner desire to have a nest they believe is their own, a castle if you will :) And those that don't want to own bricks and mortar (me, of course) will merely nod their heads and agree before moving on with their day-to-day life. An old friend of mine said it's all about, "intergenerational wealth". I'm ok with that, if it actually generates wealth but I don't know if it does. There's $10 in New Zealand A dollar is used to create 5 houses, 5 Kiwis live in them.  A house sells for $2 A new house is then bought for $3 [keep going ...] END:  There is still only $10 in NZ Houses are now worth $10 and only 2 people can afford it There is still only $10 in NZ Whilst people may be making money the country as a whole is not, it's a circular economy. Where is the money coming from to sustain this? Of course businesses need money to start, invest, and grow ...but if all the money is used to "create" individual ...

Using Google AI (now called Gemini) I have been saving images every now again that match the following, "Create an image …" of a sunrise over a sand dune with a camel of a Foggy London scene of horse for a day with a calendar showing the day representing "so satisfying" to represent popular music from the 1950s to the 1980s of a NZ 9 year old school boy with a head made of butter Interestingly the final prompt now replies with, "I can create images for you, but not ones that depict minors like that. Can I help with a different image instead? " I also try: Make a landscape ratio poster of the following phrase, "If you want to destroy a nation, destroy the thinking of it's youth - [unknown source*]" Alright, let's get into it, with the latest versions first. a sunrise over a sand dune with a camel August 2026 April 2026 December 2025     April 2024 a Foggy London scene August 2026 April 2026 April 2024 March 2024 March 2024 horse for a day...